Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
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Effectiveness of the IUCN categories.............................................................................................................................. 77 Assessment of management and the IUCN categories........................................................................................................ 78
Appendix. Typology and glossary............................................................................................................................................. 81 References.................................................................................................................................................................................. 85 Tables 1. Explanation of protected area definition.............................................................................................................................. 8 2. “National parks” in various categories................................................................................................................................ 11 3. “The IUCN protected area matrix”: a classification system for protected areas comprising both management category and governance type............................................................................................................................................ 27 4. How size of protected area relates to the category............................................................................................................... 36 5. Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat analysis for categories under climate change........................................................ 47 6. Examples of Forest Protected Areas, and also of well conserved forests that are not Forest Protected Areas......................... 54 7. Distinguishing connectivity conservation areas such as biological corridors, stepping-stones and buffer zones inside and outside protected areas...................................................................................................................................... 55 8. Categorization of the Great Barrier Reef............................................................................................................................ 57 9. Application of categories in marine protected areas............................................................................................................ 57 10. Examples of protected areas in different categories providing benefits to inland waters...................................................... 61 11. Compatibility of various inland water protection strategies with IUCN categories............................................................. 62 12. Most appropriate protected area categories for different types of inland wetland ecosystems.............................................. 63 13. Examples of sacred sites in IUCN categories...................................................................................................................... 65 14. Examples of geodiversity in different IUCN protected area categories................................................................................ 67 15. Indications of suitable IUCN protected area categories for different aspects of geodiversity............................................... 67 16. Indicative guide to restoration in different IUCN categories.............................................................................................. 68 17. Changing relationship between natural World Heritage sites and protected areas over time .............................................. 71 18. Elements of the WCPA framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas .......................................... 78 19. Definition of terms used in the guidelines.......................................................................................................................... 81 Figures 1. Naturalness and IUCN protected area categories............................................................................................................... 24 2. Zones and IUCN protected area categories........................................................................................................................ 38 3. Process for assigning protected area categories.................................................................................................................... 40 4. Frequency of IUCN PA categories occurrence in biodiversity and non-biodiversity natural WH sites................................ 73
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